American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin on how Congressional Republicans’ fumbled a chance to highlight the healthcare program’s troubled kick-off. Photo: Getty Images

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... I ... chill Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel more Republican infighting over the federal budget battles ... fierce Tennessee Senator Bob Corker ... aam understand the reason why he ... is to yell at them out releases and females a new one every bite of the Elder Watson just doesn't seem to make ... that sets in our nation's interest ... American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz Eakin here ... talk about this I dug up ... the paci out there it that said Cruise and his crew for it though ... um are the American people next week in a fog of focusing all on the start of Obamacare and ages can be looking at these guys yelling each other ... I was it's a great danger that in the fight over tactics the Republicans are going to lose a larger political messaging war ... on Tuesday ... Obamacare will start and it's going to be in mass ... and that night my fears the headlines even though the ... government shuts down because Republicans are fighting with each other that's a loss of a ... political genius is here in the GOP ... I thought I wanna talk a little bit about what actually gets ... shut down if we do indeed see that shut down on Tuesday ... I've got a slide here I wanna put up on the screen it shows some of the mandatory spending items ... I ... mean these are big programs not affected by a shot down so ... what's the car all about ... he added what people have forgotten is that most of the government is on autopilot so called mandatory spending goes out ... regardless of whether Congress votes each year ... so those programs go on and importantly the person on the need to make those programs operate ... also continue to work ... it's a much smaller fraction less than that the majority of spending that it's ... up in the battle here and ... what when it shuts down its non essential services it's out ... of the parks and things like that the people noticed but not the government was partly shut down ... is the real avoid a shutdown or is this the uncertainty by this point ... I think there to escort this point one path is the of the house up with something new on the odd that funding bill sends back the Senate ... that's a route to shut down because the Senate will slowly enough that ... they simply won't get it done in time regardless ... the other path orders for ... other leadership is it was a okay ... Einstein defined the government put the bill on the floor Democrats to vote for its some Republicans would vote for it would probably get to two hundred eighteenth ... and weed out of her one of political disaster and lurch onto the next ... we've got about a minute last that we can editorial in a in this morning's paper about it the sequester ... I in how it's basically Benny ignored by many congressional Republicans ... are they going to lose those mandatory budget cuts ... because of this infighting because of this focus on defining Obamacare ... I'm afraid so the best thing would be to simply fund the government the current levels which are too tight for the president to tolerate ... and is asking the con Ford with a deal in the debt limit the dates ... he means that deal ... on that women a clear victory for Republicans they weren't on exactly the kind of spending cuts they wanted they were spread across the budget ... instead ... of this spending the call pointed fingers at each other and not negotiating with Democrats I think is your your editorial headed just right yet defeat snatched from the jaws of victory the ... American Action Forum President Douglas E can thank so much for being on the program